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Richard Dimbleby “Witness History”
How the first report from Belsen concentration camp shocked the world. 443 total views
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Liberation of Belsen (79th Anniversary)
On 15 April 1945, British troops liberated the prisoners in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 6 total views
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Stanley Winfield (RCAF)
Stanley Winfield was born in August of 1923 in Calgary, Alberta. He left Calgary in 1941 to join the Royal Canadian Air Force, where he served as a private and aircraftsman in Halifax. 9,292 total views
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Bert Hardy – Photographer (AFPU)
Bert Hardy was born in London in May 1913. The eldest of seven children in a working-class family, he left school aged fourteen to work as a messenger collecting and delivering film and prints from West End chemists for a film processing company. 9,283 total views
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John Hankinson, Medical Student
John was born on 10 March 1919 in Ramsbottom in Lancashire and was proud of his half-Irish parentage. After schooling in Thornleigh College, Bolton, he graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in 1946. 10,132 total views
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Elizabeth Dearden (nee Clarkson)
A much-loved member of the Quaker community in Totnes, who was one of the first relief workers to arrive at Belsen when the notorious concentration camp was liberated, has died at the age of 93. 10,222 total views
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Lt. Alan Wilson (AFPU)
Lt Alan Wilson of Glasgow, is dusted with DDT (to protect him from typhus) before entering the camp. 20th April 1945. This photo was taken by Sgt Harry Oakes (AFPU). 9,033 total views
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Dennis Lewis
He was born in July 1913 in Chipping Norton and before the war worked as a solicitor’s clerk, living at 62, New Street. 9,088 total views
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George Rodger – Photographer
George Rodger (19 March 1908 – 24 July 1995) was a British photojournalist noted for his work for photographing the mass deaths at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the Second World War. 10,695 total views
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Sergeant Richard Leatherbarrow (AFPU)
AFPU film cameraman and photographer, Sergeant Richard Leatherbarrow relaxes with three former women camp inmates at Belsen. Sgt Leatherbarrow served with No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit and worked primarily as a film cameraman. On D Day, he accompanied and filmed the Canadian forces who landed on Juno Beach. 9,535 total views
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